UNB, Kunming :
Bangladeshi and Chinese youths here on Thursday vowed to work as “Ambassadors of Friendship” with much more close cooperation and exchanges to contribute to better future of the two countries and help grow them in a faster pace. They made the promise during their informal discussion as part of ‘Bangladesh-China Youth Camp 2017 being held on the Yunnan University campus in Kunming, which is famous as the “City of Eternal Spring”. Two members of Bangladesh youth delegation Fatema-tuz Zohra and Subra Barua – planted a tree on the campus as a sign of growing friendship between the two countries, and vowed to promote people-to-people and cultural ties. Though the youth camp activities began on Tuesday, the formal opening ceremony was held at the lecture hall of Foreign Languages School of the Yunnan University in the morning. The venue was nicely decorated with Bangladesh and Chinese flags giving a warm welcome to visiting delegation members. Speaking on the occasion, Yunnan University Vice-president Prof Dr Zhang Li said he firmly believes youths’ experiences here will help them know more about rich Chinese culture, colourful Yunnan and develop friendship on this dynamic university campus.
“I hope you’ll become the Ambassadors of Friendship between Bangladesh and China,” he said.
Prof Li said, Yunnan Province is a close neighbour of Bangladesh with less than a three-hour journey by air and its capital Kunming stands as the gate to South Asia and Southeast Asia offering many opportunities.
He said since 2012, Kunming has been hosting China-South Asia Expo.
The university Vice-president said the 2017 Youth Camp is one of the achievements of Chinese President Xi’s visit to Bangladesh last year.
“People-to-people contact as well as economic cooperation between Bangladesh and China is growing every year,” he said.
Chairperson of English Language Programme and the Student Advisor of the Institute of Modern Languages in Bangladesh Prof Dr Shaila Sultana said the students of Yunnan University in their red T-shirts, their big friendly smiles, sincerity, kindness and generosity won their hearts.
“The magnificent campus of Yunnan University, its grandiosity, its architectural excellence, and its spectacular landscape, and the lustrous greenery, the crisps wind, and the mild weather of Kunmin city itself, and not to mention, its scrumptious and delectable mouth-watering food – have won my heart. I believe other Bangladeshi students have the same feeling. Kunmin, no wonder, is famous as the “City of Eternal Spring,” she said.
Bangladeshi and Chinese youths here on Thursday vowed to work as “Ambassadors of Friendship” with much more close cooperation and exchanges to contribute to better future of the two countries and help grow them in a faster pace. They made the promise during their informal discussion as part of ‘Bangladesh-China Youth Camp 2017 being held on the Yunnan University campus in Kunming, which is famous as the “City of Eternal Spring”. Two members of Bangladesh youth delegation Fatema-tuz Zohra and Subra Barua – planted a tree on the campus as a sign of growing friendship between the two countries, and vowed to promote people-to-people and cultural ties. Though the youth camp activities began on Tuesday, the formal opening ceremony was held at the lecture hall of Foreign Languages School of the Yunnan University in the morning. The venue was nicely decorated with Bangladesh and Chinese flags giving a warm welcome to visiting delegation members. Speaking on the occasion, Yunnan University Vice-president Prof Dr Zhang Li said he firmly believes youths’ experiences here will help them know more about rich Chinese culture, colourful Yunnan and develop friendship on this dynamic university campus.
“I hope you’ll become the Ambassadors of Friendship between Bangladesh and China,” he said.
Prof Li said, Yunnan Province is a close neighbour of Bangladesh with less than a three-hour journey by air and its capital Kunming stands as the gate to South Asia and Southeast Asia offering many opportunities.
He said since 2012, Kunming has been hosting China-South Asia Expo.
The university Vice-president said the 2017 Youth Camp is one of the achievements of Chinese President Xi’s visit to Bangladesh last year.
“People-to-people contact as well as economic cooperation between Bangladesh and China is growing every year,” he said.
Chairperson of English Language Programme and the Student Advisor of the Institute of Modern Languages in Bangladesh Prof Dr Shaila Sultana said the students of Yunnan University in their red T-shirts, their big friendly smiles, sincerity, kindness and generosity won their hearts.
“The magnificent campus of Yunnan University, its grandiosity, its architectural excellence, and its spectacular landscape, and the lustrous greenery, the crisps wind, and the mild weather of Kunmin city itself, and not to mention, its scrumptious and delectable mouth-watering food – have won my heart. I believe other Bangladeshi students have the same feeling. Kunmin, no wonder, is famous as the “City of Eternal Spring,” she said.
